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Scotland ['skɒtlәnd]

n. 苏格兰

scotland

[ noun ]
one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
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Citizens Financial Group Inc. has agreed to be acquired for $440 million by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the sixth-largest banking group in the United Kingdom.
But the Royal Bank is increasingly aggressive these days and has now lured Leith Robertson, one of the Bank of Scotland's senior management buyout specialists, to become its corporate director in charge of mbos and acquisition finance.
The lack of books had made his childhood in Scotland seem like prison, but when he reached London, he found things little better. The greatest city in the world had no public libraries and books were expensive.
Some of the antiques in Jalousie's Great House have come from Glenconner's homes in Mustique, Scotland and England.
HALL & TAWSE, the const ruction division of Raine Industries, has won hospital development contracts worth Pounds 7.3m. An orthopaedic centre and two operating theatres are being built at Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen by Hall & Tawse Scotland.
Investigators have said a bomb in a radio-cassette player brought the Boeing 747 down Dec. 21, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 residents of the market town of Lockerbie, Scotland.
The fire was put out by London Fire Brigade and the body of a man was found inside the car," the Scotland Yard statement said.
Crombie Anderson, a consultancy in Dunfermline, Scotland and Denver, Colorado, has chosen to spin out the two high-tech businesses it has incubated.
Providing more performing space than any other theatre in Scotland, the stage will be comparable to that of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. The auditorium is of exceptional design and gives the theatre its Grade B listed building status.
According to Mr Ian Lang, the Scottish secretary, unemployment in Scotland is now lower than in the UK as a whole for the first time since records began.
MOTOROLA, the US electr-onics group, yesterday announced plans to expand its East Kilbride semiconductor plant in Scotland to make it the biggest of its kind in Europe.
In what no doubt made a pleasant change from poring over economic data, two UK Treasury officials flew to Scotland earlier this year for a day's tour of whisky distilleries.
It is too early to tell." Scotland Yard said a forensic team from its anti-terrorist squad had been called in to help investigate.
Santander, with its partner, the Royal Bank of Scotland, bought out Portugal's Banco Comercio e Industria three years ago. BPI is using the Itausa group as a white knight.
Rising in sympathy was Standard Chartered, up 6 at 455; Barclays, up 2 at 387; National Westminster, up 7 at 292; and Royal Bank of Scotland, up 3 at 171.
He had intended to make it a mini financial conglomerate, eventually spreading from Scotland to London.
OPPOSITION parties in Scotland presented a disunited front at the weekend.
A group of about 200 demonstrators continued throwing objects at police armed with riot shields as well as at passing civilian cars, Scotland Yard said.
Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad on Thursday urged the public to be particularly vigilant on the British mainland.
Mr. Burnside said he and some of the 70 lawyers hoped to discuss a compensation package today with Occidental officials in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Three British minesweepers left Scotland on Monday for the eastern Mediterranean, and C-130 Hercules transport planes were flying to Saudi Arabia and Oman, using a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus as a staging post.
Among other beneficiaries, two industrially declining regions in England and three in Scotland will share 60.6 million ECUs.
Access to Personal Files (Housing) (Scotland) Regulations.
The German issue also is the central topic at the North Atlantic Council meeting in Turnberry, Scotland, that begins Thursday and at the the Warsaw Pact meeting in Moscow at the end of the week.
It is not limited to England: in Sweden magpies are connected with witchcraft and in Scotland if they fly near your window it heralds a death.
The spokeman said Clydesdale, based in Glasgow, Scotland, "has taken disciplinary action concerning two officials following an internal inquiry into matters covered by the bank's staff rules for share dealing."
On this date: In 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.
ROYAL Bank of Scotland has offered clerical staff pay rises of between 2.5 per cent and 3.5 per cent.
Scotland Yard said it was coordinating a nationwide police inquiry, but it refused to give details.
Only one thing will count: how much the need to keep Scotland's electricity Scottish prevents a full allocation for overseas demand.

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